Major Financial Crimes & Insider Risk Investigator, Stripe

• The right person for this role will enjoy dealing with puzzles, seeking creative solutions, engaging with internal and external stakeholders and who moves quickly while ensuring comprehensive results
• 6+ years experience in investigative roles within financial crimes: AML, and/sanctions, fraud, risk and Insider Risk related matters
• 3+ years experience conducting information seeking interviews
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including effective communications and dynamic problem solving
• Excellent research and writing skills, including in detailed investigative reports and high level executive briefings
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of information, including transaction data
• Ability to work efficiently and independently in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to handle highly sensitive matters with discretion

Desirable

• The Major Investigations team is part of Stripe’s Global Investigations function and is responsible for conducting investigations across a range of financial crime risk areas which include significant fraud, money laundering and insider risk investigations
• The team will investigate matters originating from legal production orders, public-private partnership engagements, Stripe’s internal Speak Up Hotline channel as well as other internal and external referral sources
• The team will work in close partnership with regional investigative teams and other internal stakeholders to manage risk and mitigate potential control weaknesses
• We are looking for a senior financial crimes investigations expert to join the MajorInvestigations team and to take the lead on Stripe’s intricate and wide ranging financial crimes and sensitive insider risk reviews
• You will be responsible for conducting quick turn around and in-depth investigations covering a multitude of financial crimes and insider risk matters
• In doing so, you will confront high priority and sensitive issues from a variety of emerging and novel typologies with significant ambiguity
• In addition to conducting investigations and making recommendations on merchants, you will also be asked to evaluate how Stripe’s financial crimes controls could be enhanced to further mitigate identified risks and typologies and work with internal stakeholders to ensure the enhancements are escalated to the appropriate team for remediation
• Independently conduct a wide variety of high priority and sensitive investigations across all financial crimes and insider risk areas, including AML, CTF, sanctions, fraud, expense fraud, conflicts of interest and more
• Strategically develop investigative and interview plans
• Draft regulatory reports related to those high priority investigations
• Propose solutions to mitigate financial crimes risk both across the program and on an individual case basis
• Work with a globally dispersed team and coordinate efforts across regions on cases with cross-border exposure
• Demonstrate sound judgment and an ability to navigate high priority,high-risk and sensitive cases for which the correct decisions are not immediately clear
• Proactively partner with internal and external stakeholders and law enforcement agencies regarding priority, high impact, or emerging typologies
• Present investigative findings, coherent risk analyses stemming from findings, and recommended risk mitigations and metrics to a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Effectively and clearly communicate, including with other Stripes, Stripe's users, and Stripe's financial partners